Colorful Entrance (113/365)

TIME: 6:32 pm

PLACE: Casa Maria
SUBJECT: Entrance 

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I needed puffy chicken tacos and a drink tonight.

Casa Maria never disappoints.

Scratches (043/365)

TIME: 5:27 pm

PLACE: Living room
SUBJECT: Front door

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This is what can happen when you have dogs and don't train them properly to stop jumping when someone is at the door.

I will have to some sanding and re-staining...but there will still be a bit character on that wood.

Volume (030/365)

TIME: 1:02 pm

PLACE: 1st block of North 9th Street
SUBJECT: Tag on door

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On this very rainy, very cold Saturday, SD and I did a bit of thrift shopping.

I needed a frame for a photo DQ had given me for Christmas and, more importantly, I needed to get out of the house for a bit.

We parked on the side of the building, but I didn't notice this graffiti tag until we returned to the car.

SD informed me that this particular tag is around St. Louis as well.  How does she know these things?

Down The Hallway (318/366)

TIME: 5:05 pm

PLACE: Upstairs hallway
SUBJECT: Light

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The last of today's light spreading down the hallway before the early darkness of November sets in.

Seen on “Walks with Mulder” (200/365)

TIME: 7:53 PM
PLACE: St. Mary School
SUBJECT: Door

This entrance is no longer utilized. 

I remember picking up my niece from this door in the mid 1990’s when they had a pre-school here.

Church Door (187/365)

TIME: 8:54 PM
PLACE: Front of St. Mary’s Church
SUBJECT: Door & shadows

It was very hot today, so we needed to wait until it cooled a bit before tonight’s walk with Mulder.  So it commenced a little later than usual.

It worked out well.

The lights in front of the church made great shadows on the front door.

Waiting For Me (167/365)

TIME: 8:43 PM
PLACE: Front porch
SUBJECT: Oreo, Mulder and Jack

I was outside trying to take a few pictures.

They were all waiting for me to come back in the house.

Green Door (148/365)

TIME: 10:36 AM
PLACE: St. Louis
SUBJECT: Door on loading dock

Claudia, her boyfriend Blake, Stella and I went to Cherokee Street in St. Louis for it’s 1st Cherokee Caravan Antiques and Art Bazaar.

It was very warm this morning, I didn’t purchase anything, however, Stella found a cool puppet with a papier-mâché head.

And I took a picture of this door.

White Door Red Building (137/365)

TIME: 8:07 PM
PLACE: Alley
SUBJECT: Foundry door

I liked the lines and colors in this picture.

Character (092/365)

TIME: 4:16 PM
PLACE: Home
SUBJECT: Front door

These scratches have been on our front door since we bought the house.

Not sure how they got there, but I like them – I consider them “character”

Fair House (196/365)

TIME:  7:39 PM
PLACE: N 11th Street
SUBJECT: Flag in front of row house

HH and I ate supper at 10th Street Bakery with some friends.
When we left, the setting sun was throwing some nice light on the buildings.
Supposedly, this row house was originally located at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis as housing for the workers.
After the fair was over, it was dismantled and re-built here in town.

Broken Rule (209/365)

TIME:  9:03 PM
PLACE:  Bathroom
SUBJECT:  Doorknob

One of my religious beliefs is that there is a special place in hell for those people who paint their door hardware.

Honestly, if you are painting a door, take the time to remove the damn things from the door and the frame.

As part of the never-ending bathroom remodel, I stripped the old bathroom door of 4 layers of paint – I’m pretty sure the bottom one was lead-based.  No precautions were taken, so I’ve probably lead poisoning as well. 

Then I stained it - Twice!  The first stain was waaay too orange – I re-stained it with an Ebony stain.  It looks much better and almost matches the vanity base – Bonus!
 
Finally, I boiled, scraped, stripped and scrubbed off the paint from the hinges, knobs and plate hardware.
 
Alas, after I removed all of the paint, the metal underneath looked horrible could not be saved.

So, I confess, I will be joining the painting heathens in their eternal life of hell and brimstone.

In my defense, however, I did use a metallic spray paint to match the sink and shower fixtures. 

So there.

Countdown (199/365)

TIME:  5:24 PM
PLACE:  DramaQueen’s room
SUBJECT:  Door

Her door is a chalkboard.  She’s counting down the days until we leave for Florida.  I think she’s excited about it.

New Harmony (177/365)

TIME:  10:45 AM
PLACE:  New Harmony, Indiana
SUBJECT:  Atheneum/Visitors Center

We took a day trip to New Harmony, Indiana today.  I expected the children to be completely bored.  Surprisingly, only one was cranky – DramaQueen (go figure). 

TIME:  10:56 AM
PLACE:  Inside the Lenz House (circa 1819-1822)
SUBJECT:  Door and stairway

We took the walking tour and were able to enter into several buildings that are only open to visitors with a guide.


TIME:  12:47 PM
PLACE:  Outside the Antheneum
SUBJECT:  Split rail fence posts

It took about two hours.  StellaDella asked some questions that impressed the tour guide (That’s my girl!)  Afterwards, MonkeyBoy even stated that it was “More interesting than I expected”

TIME:  8:40 AM
PLACE:  State Route 66
SUBJECT:  The now closed New Harmony Toll Bridge

Remember this bridge?  I drove across it in November of 2010.  It closed on May 21, 2012 due to structural deficiencies.  It’s still a cool looking bridge.

Watching The World Go By (209/366)

“Watching the world go by
When you're with your love
Life is a beautiful tune”

Dean Martin, Watching the World Go By

TIME:  3:44 PM
PLACE:  Living room
SUBJECT:  Oreo and Jack

DQ took this photo of Oreo and Jack looking out the front door.  I don’t know what they were looking at, but apparently, it was interesting.

How Lawyers Prop Open A Door (145/365)

“Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.”

Archimedes (Mathematician and inventor of ancient Greece, 280-211bc)

TIME:  8:48 AM
PLACE:  Work
SUBJECT:  Improvised door stop
(Taken with my crappy cell phone camera because the batteries died in my PowerShot-Grrrrrrr)

When I entered the vestibule at work this morning, I saw this case of Budweiser Select holding open the door.  What you can’t see behind me are many, many more cases of beer (and a few cases of soda).  Why?  The office building annual bar-be-que is tomorrow.  Here’s hoping it won’t get rained out.  Speaking of rain – we were hit with more storms this afternoon.  DramaQueen surprised me by keeping me company on the front porch for awhile…until she saw this cloud formation:

Then she headed for the basement.  The clouds turned out to be more bark than bite – our area ended up with just some rain and a bit of wind.

That Will Buff Out, Right? (101/365)

“The dent in his car is hardly cold and he's coming over here to claim his pound of fish.”

Archie Bunker, "Edith's Accident." All In The Family. TV series 1968-1979.

TIME:  3:39 PM
PLACE:  Driveway
SUBJECT:  Body damage on the Corvette

So, yesterday, we were flying merrily down Highway 55 in HandsomeHusband’s pride and joy – his Corvette.  We had driven up to Podunk to visit with Miss Dana and had a lovely time.  We had been on the road for the return trip for about 3.5 hours.  I was just beginning to check my eyelids for leaks, and was almost in a Zen-like state, when I simultaneously heard HH swear and a big “CLUNK” of something metal being caught in the front wheel well and then bouncing off of the passenger side door.  Ugh…that’s not something you want to hear.  When he could, HH drove onto an exit ramp, pulled over on the shoulder and we both got out to assess the damage: Let’s see, we have a blemish on the front bumper; some minor damage to the wheel well and this: an ugly gouge on the passenger door.  Bum-mer.  Does anyone know a good auto body repairman who specializes in fiberglass?

Why My Windows Always Have Fingerprints (005/365)

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing”

Phyllis Diller (American comedienne and actress, born 1917)

TIME:  4:34 PM
PLACE:  Kitchen
SUBJECT:  Steamy windows

I was boiling pasta for dinner this evening when DramaQueen went outside with the dog.  She left the main door open and the steam from the pot covered the storm door with a layer of condensation.  StellaDella noticed this and was attracted to the windows like a moth to a flame.  I didn’t have my camera out quick enough (I left the card in the computer, so I was fumbling about for a little bit) to catch her in the illegal act of drawing on the window.  She “erased” her pictures before I could snap a photo.  However, I did manage to capture some evidence of her masterpiece in the bottom right corner of this photo.  Busted.

Mr. Doorknob (025/365)

 
Alice: [looking through the Doorknob's keyhole] There he is! I simply must get through.
Doorknob: Sorry. You're much too big. Simply impassable.
Alice: You mean impossible.
Doorknob: No, impassable. Nothing's impossible.

Alice in Wonderland. Directed by Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson. Written by Winston Hibler, adapted from the novels by Lewis Carroll. Walt Disney Productions.1951.

TIME:  7:05 PM
PLACE:  Living room
SUBJECT:  Doorknob face

Ever since my "Unhappy Toast" picture on Saturday, I’ve been keeping an eye out for faces in other inanimate objects.  This face in the doorknob was neither difficult, nor surprising to find.  Ever since I was young, even before I ever saw Alice in Wonderland, I always thought these types of doorknobs looked like faces and if I turned them too hard, they might yell at me.  I know, I’m strange.  HandsomeHusband would be the first to tell you that sometimes,  I’m just not right in the head.

Do Not Enter (207/365)

 
“You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.”

  Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887 (American, Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker, 1813–1887)

TIME:  7:02 PM
PLACE:  Millstadt, IL
SUBJECT: Door on building (you will need to *click* on the picture for the best effect)

We went out to for supper tonight – Italian!  My dad and a friend of ours joined us at the restaurant.  Afterwards, I rode back with my dad so I could go to his house and help him with some computer issues.  As we passed through the town of Millstadt, I noticed this door and the sign on it.  I found it quite amusing and mentioned to Dad that I would have to get a picture of it at some point.  He asked if I had my camera – but of course! -and then he turned the car around so I could take a photo.  Thanks Dad!